Keep away from

• Don't partake of
• Spurn Point school we set up
• Shun old artist, wife having run off
• Deliberately stay clear of
• Spurn
• Pass on name taken from dancing wenches
• Just say no to

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mid-14c., from Old French eschiver "shun, eschew, avoid, dispense with," from Frankish *skiuhan "dread, avoid, shun," from Proto-Germanic *skeukhwaz (cognates: Old High German sciuhen "to avoid, escape," German scheuen "to fear, shun, shrink from," scheu ...

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